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ORDINANCE NO. 1060
AN ORDINANCE OF THE CITY COUNCIL OF
THE CITY OF ARCADIA, CALIFORNIA,
A~DING SECTION 5 OF ORDINANCE
NJ. 760 OF THE CITY OF ARCADIA.
THE CI'rY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF ARCADIA, CALIFORNIA, DOES
DETERMINE AND ORDAIN AS FOLLOWS:
SECTION I. After public hearings before the City Planning
Commission and the City Council, and upon reviewing and considering
all evidence presented thereat, that the public necessity, conven-
ience and general welfare require that Ordinance No. 760 of the City
of Arcadia be amended as hereinafter provided.
SECTION 2. That Section 5 of Ordinance No. 760 of the
City of Arcadia, entitled "AN ORDINANCE ESTABLISHING ZONES IN THE
CITY OF ARCADIA AND THEREIN REGULATING THE USE OF LAND: HEIGHT OF
BUILDINGS AND YARD SPACES: ADOPTING A MAP SHOWING THE BOUNDARIES OF
SAID ZONES: DEFINING THE TERMS USED IN THIS ORDINANCE: PROVIDING
FOR ITS ADJUSTMEN'r, AMENDMENT AND ENFORCEMENT: PRESCRIBING PENALTIES
FOR VIOLATION AND REPEALING ORDINANCES OR PORTIONS OF ORDINANCES IN
CONFLICT THEREWITH," adopted May 3, 1949, be and the same is hereby
amended to read as follows:
SECTION 5. "R-I" SECOND ONE-FAMILY ZONE.
The following regulations shall apply in the "R-I" Second
One-Family Zone unless otherwise prOVided in this ordinance.
A. USE.
No building or land shall be used and no building shall be
hereafter erected, constructed or established except for the follow-
ing uses:
1. Any use permitted in the "R-O" First One-Family Zone;
one-family dwellings of a permanent character placed in a permanent
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location, containing not less than one thousand (1,000) square feet
of floor area, exclusive of porches, garages, entries, patios and
basements; private garages, carports.
2. The raising Or keeping of not to exceed a total of ten
(IO) fowl or birds, the raising or keeping of racing homing pigeons
under such regulations as may be imposed by ordinance, and a total
of not to exceed five (5) small animals (and the offspring of each
thereof until such offspring is capable of being raised or main-
tained separate from and independently of full grown members of the
same species), keeping of livestock; each of the foregoing to be
subject to such regulations as are now or may hereafter be imposed by
ordinance; private greenhouses and horticultural collections (grown
in the ground); fruit and vegetable gardens, fruit trees, nut trees,
sale of only the products produced on the premises.
3. Underground storage of petroleum products for use on
the premises.
4. Transitional use, subject to the following conditions:
a. A two-family dwelling where a one-family dwelling
would otherwise be permitted when the side of a lot in the
ItR_llt Zone abuts upon property zoned for ItR_31t, "pit and com-
mercial or industrial purposes.
b. A public parking area where the side of a lot in
the ItR_IIt Zone abuts upon a lot zoned for commercial or indus-
trial purposes and is developed as required in Section 15.
c. In no case shall any part of such transitional
use be located farther than seventy-five (75) feet from the
less restricted zone.
B. BUILDING HEIGHT.
No building hereafter erected, constructed or established
shall exceed two (2) stories or thirty-five (35) feet in height ex-
cept as provided in Section 15.
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C. FRONT YARD.
There i3hall be a front yard of not less than twenty-five
per cent (25%) of the depth of the lot, provided such front yard
need not exceed twenty-five (25) feet except where lots comprising
sixty per cent (60%) or more of the improved frontage on one side
of a street between intersecting streets are developed with build-
ings having a front yard different than herein prescribed, the re-
quired front yard shall be the average of those having a variation
of not more than six (6) feet from the standard front yard herein
prescribed; provided that where exceptionally deep lots or excep-
tionally shallow lots prevail, an appropriate special front yard
depth established in the manner provided for in Section 16 herein-
after shall govern; provided, however, that if a front yard depth
other than that herein prescribed is now or may hereafter be estab-
lished by Section 15, C Area, subparagraph 2 of this ordinance, the
required front yard depths shall be as prescribed by such Section.
D. SIDE YARD.
On interior lots there shall be a side yard on each side
of a building of not less than three (3) feet, provided that when
one or more dwellings are erected at locations on a lot other than
the building site contiguous to the front yard the required side
yard for each such building shall be not less than ten (IO) feet.
On corner lots the required side yard line adjoining the
interior lot shall be the same as fOr interior lots. The required
side yard on the street side shall be ten per cent (10%) of the
width of the lot, provided it shall be not less than ten (IO) feet.
There shall be adequate ingress and egress to each dwell-
ing and required parking space by means of an unobstructed driveway
not less than eight (S) feet in width, and adequate space for an
automobile turnarcund for each dwelling other than the one substan-
tially at the front building line.
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E. REAR YARD.
On all lots there shall be a rear yard of not less than
twenty-five per cent (25%) of the depth of the lot, provided such
rear yard need not exceed twenty-five (25) feet, and provided fur-
ther that no stftlcture designed or used for dwelling or sleeping
pu~poses shall be located within that distance from the rear lot
line that is herein specified for the required rear yard. The dis-
tance between separate dwellings on the same lot shall be not less
than thirty-five (35) feet. The distance between any dwelling and
an accessory building shall be not less than fifteen (15) feet.
F. LOT AREA.
Every main building hereafter erected, constructed or
established shall be located at the front building line on a site
containing an area of not less than seven thousand five hundred
(7,500) square feet per family, provided that where a lot has less
area than herein required, and was of record prior to June 28,
1940, said lot may be occupied by not more than one family; and
provided that if such parcel of land is a recorded lot having the
required lot area but a minimum width of fifty (50) feet at the
front building line and was of record prior to January 27, 1949,
said lot may be occupied by not more than one family.
If a portion of a lot has been divided or resubdivided
since June 2, 1949, with the approval of the City, and the remain-
ing portion of the lot contains 18,750 square feet or more in area,
one additional dwelling may be erected; if the remaining portion of
the lot contains 30,000 square feet or more in area, two additional
dwellings may be erected, but not more than three single family
dwellings shall be permitted on anyone lot or parcel of land in
Zone "R-I". Each additional dwelling shall contain not less than
1,000 square feet of floor area, and if located other than sub-
stantially at the front building line shall be not more than one
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story in height. Where two or more dwellings are erected on a lot,
each building site shall be as rectangular as the shape of the lot
will permit, and shall be of substantially the same size and shape
as the others, and shall be approved in accordance with Section 16
hereinafter.
Provided, however, that no main building may hereafter be
erected, constructed or established other than substantially at the
front building line, nor may any additional dwelling be erected, ex-
cept upon approval thereof secured in accordance with Section 16
hereinafter. Sueh approval shall not be given if any main building
or additional dwelling will prevent or interfere with the opening or
development of any street or ally, the location of which has been
approved by the City Planning Commission and the City Council, nor
if such construction will prevent uniformity of improvement of the
area, nor unless twenty-five per cent (25%) or more of the lots in
the block are already developed with two or more dwellings.
Except as provided in Ordinance No. 860 of the City of
Arcadia, entitled "AN ORDINANCE OF THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF
ARCADIA, CALIFORNIA, REGULATING THE SUBDIVISION AND DIVIDING OF
LAND IN SAID CITY, AND REPEALING ORDINANCES 488, 516, 584, 606 AND
807 OF SAID CITY", no lot or parcel of land held under separate
ownership on June 2, 1949, shall be separated in ownership or re-
duced in size below the minimum lot width or lot area required by
this ordinance, nor shall any lot or parcel of land held under
separate ownership on June 2, 1949, and which has a width or an
area less than that required by this ordinance be further reduced
in any manner. No portion of a lot, necessary to provide the re-
quired area per dwelling unit, shall be separated in ownership
from the portion of the lot upon which the building containing the
dwelling unit or units is located.
Where building site areas, other than recorded subdivided
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lots, vary from the minimum requirements herein provided, it shall
be the responsibility of the Planning Commission upon its own motion
or by applicatio~ of a property owner or owners, to ascertain all
pertinent facts and to determine what, in the face of such facts,
would constitute the greatest adherence to the standards and pur-
poses of this ordinance and to then recommend such interpretations
to the City Council. Upon the review by the City Council and the
approval thereof by resolution, such adjustment shall thereafter
become effective as it pertains to specific property. Proceedings
under this paragl~aph need not be submitted to public hearings.
SECTION 3. The City Clerk shall certify to the adoption
of this ordinance and prior to the expiration of fifteen (15) days
from the passage thereof, shall cause the same to be published once
in the Arcadia Tribune and Arcadia News, a newspaper of general cir-
culation published and circulated in the City of Arcadia.
I HEREBY CERTIFY that the foregoing ordinance was adopted
at a regular meeting of the City Council of the City of Arcadia,
held on the
7th
day of
July
, 1959, by the affirmative
vote of at least three Councilmen, to wit:
AYES:
Councilmen Jacobi, Balser and Phillips
NOES:
ABSTAINED:
ABSENT:
None
Councilman Camphouse
Councilman Re~bold ~ (' _,
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City C er or e City 0 rca ia
SIGNED ~D APPROVED this
July
> 1959.
ATTEST:
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(SEAL)
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